Bio
Sabre Esler (b. Cleveland, OH) lives and works in Atlanta Georgia. She received her MFA from SCAD, Atlanta and her received her BFA from Miami University, Oxford OH where she studied graphic design, illustration and biology. Esler has exhibited in New York, Charleston, Knoxville, Boston, Connecticut, Atlanta, Nashville and Miami, and museums such as Miami University, SCAD Museum of Art, Alexandria Museum, Valdosta State Museum, Oglethorpe University, Agnes Scott College, and Georgia State University as well as Chastain Art Center, and Glynn Visual Arts Center and SCOPE and Aqua during Art Miami. She has been in residency at Atlanta Contemporary and is a Hambidge Fellow. Esler has taught at Georgia State University, Perimeter College and SCAD. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of Tufts University, Miami University, Georgia State University Perimeter College, The Federal Reserve Bank, Fulton County Arts Council, City of Atlanta, and corporate collections of Acoustic, AdvantEdge Executive Offices, Atlantic Capital Bank, Boston Consulting Group, Boardwalk Inn at Wild Dunes, Cognia, Crowell & Moring, Fieldpoint Private Bank & Trust, Georgian Bank, Hilton Hotels, Hyatt Hotels, NCR/VOYIX, Oglethorpe Bank, Preferred Office, Reaction 35, Ritz Carlton, SunTrust Bank, The Lofts at Capitol Quarters, Trammel Crow to name a few. Collectors through out the United States and internationally have been collecting her work since 1995.
Artist Statement
As a child, my mother would ask me, “Why did you do that?” I replied, “I don’t know!” Why? This has been a continual question in my life. When I was 3, napping in my bed, I imagined I was a superhero because I could see the floaters in my eye as I scanned the gradient ceiling. My imagination of why things work is part of who I am. Watching Bill Murray’s character in “Groundhog Day” as he struggled through the stages of grief to wrestle with who he was and his responses to a day that never ended reminds me of how I think defines me. I build real and imagined structures to answer the question of “Why?” This word becomes Y at the intersection of X. Decisions are essentially the math of our lives. Stay or go, yes or no, right or wrong, left or right, black or white are all decisions at the intersection of the structures I build. My decision-making process creates ethereal mazes and systems to define the dichotomy of opposites. The themes of my work are harmony vs. chaos, order vs. disorder, and truth vs. lies. The power of our thoughts ultimately defines our existence. There is a hidden architecture relied upon to make complex decisions. I describe this construct.
Gallery Representation
Flow Gallery
https://www.palmettobluff.com/experience/the-arts-initiative/flow-gallery-workshop
Palmetto Bluff Wilson Village, Bluffton SC
Saatchi Art